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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 
Potash i .320% Lime 084% 
Phosphoric acid 398% Mlagnesia 2.117% 
Hence t.ooo pounds dried leaves would contain about four pounds 
phosphoric acid; 13.2 pounds potash; .8 pounds lime; 2T.1 pounds 
magnesia; and thirty-seven pounds nitrogen. From this it will be seen 
that the leaf is curiously rich in magnesia, but whether from selection 
or force of circumstances it is difficult to say. 
Most of the work is done by contract, each coolie being expected to 
get latex enough to produce one pound of dried rubber a day. It is 
VIEW OF "HEVE.v” SIX MONTHS AFTER PLANTING. 
very interesting to watch them as they troop up to the curing house 
early in the forenoon, with huge tin cans of latex on their heads, and to 
note how they watch the straining that none is slopped over, and even 
rinse cups, cans, and every receptacle and add it to the rest that no 
precious drop escape. 
The rubber landed in Colombo costs sixteen cents a pound, United 
States money. Just to let the skeptical do a little bit of thinking, and 
by the skeptical I mean the majority of rubber manufacturers who 
